[drunkenmonkey]

If a culture exists which relies upon distrust, that culture is tightly-controlled, so that such distrust can be usefully exploited by the /elite/ to put the community in check, when required by the elite.

When you combine this with government, you have a recipe for "your life is over" workplace weather conditions. Maybe that storm only blows in once every 10 years, and doesn't take many people... so if you're high-functioning, you might not want to join the island where the heroes are fed to the Minotaur when the political climate goes South, sometimes without warning.

You might want to join the place where the worst-case scenario fail condition is a pink slip and a bad blog post. Naturally.